HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES OF NEW ORLEANS,
New Orleans, September 8, 1864.

Brigadier-General CAMERON,

Thibodeaux:

The general sends you this morning Henry Duker and John Newman, two men employed as guides for the La Fourche country. These men are thoroughly acquainted with the whole country in your front, and with their assistance the general thinks that you will be able to keep the country this side of Grand Lake clear of the enemy, and at the same time get a thorough topographical knowledge of the whole country. The general thinks that you should detail some competent officer as draughtsman. These men will be taken up on the rolls of the quartermaster at Thibodeaux at the rate of $100 per month and a ration from this date. When their services can be dispensed with they will be discharged.

FREDERIC SPEED,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, No. 195. New Orleans, September 8, 1864.

1. The Twentieth Iowa Volunteers is hereby assigned to the First Brigade, Third Division, Nineteenth Army Corps.

2. Colonel Dye, Twentieth Iowa Volunteers, will proceed to Morganza without delay with his regiment, reporting to the commanding officer at that place.

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By command of Major General J. J. Reynolds:

S. C. FARRINGTON,
Captain and Aide-de-Camp.

NEW ORLEANS, September 8, 1864.

Brigadier-General LAWLER:

The major-general commanding Nineteenth Corps directs that no more troops be sent to White River until further orders.

S. C. FARRINGTON,

Captain and Aide-de-Camp.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Mouth of White River, September 8, 1864.

Major-General STEELE:

GENERAL: Pursuant to instructions from the major-general commanding the Military Division of West Mississippi, I have the honor to report my safe arrival at this point with a portion of my command, numbering-infantry, cavalry and artillery-about 5,000 men. As soon as my command disembarks, the boats return to Morganza for the Third Division of this corps.

I have the honor to be, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ELIAS S. DENNIS,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.